Of Ones and Zeros

1-800-GOOG-411

Posted on 17. Dec, 2007 by bryan.

If you haven’t checked out 1-800-GOOG-411 yet, you should.  It is 100% voice recognition driven directory assistance (wow that was a mouthful).  You call up, it asks for the location.  It will then respond back with how it heard the location and you can confirm.  It will then ask for either a category or business [...]

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"The page you are attempting to save has been modified by another user since you began editing"

Posted on 17. Dec, 2007 by bryan.

I recently ran into an issue where editing content within a Content Editor web part would cause the following message to appear in the Publishing Toolbar:
The page you are attempting to save has been modified by another user since you began editing
At that point you would have to select “Save and Overwrite Changes” in order [...]

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Cleaning Up Orphaned Webs

Posted on 24. Oct, 2007 by bryan.

Ran into an issue today with installing the October 9th SharePoint Security Patch. During the content database upgrade I received several errors that certain sites and webs were missing. This is due to the staging content database being migrated from a development content database, and there are slight differences in the configuration databases [...]

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Global Navigation Error After Creating Site from Site Template

Posted on 28. Sep, 2007 by bryan.

Follow along:

Create a new site template from SharePoint Designer.  Doesn’t really matter what the site template is for or what options you choose (based on my experience).
Go into SharePoint and create a new site based on the new custom Site Template.
Note that your top navigation bar (the global navigation) should now have a “Home” tab, [...]

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Unable to login to SharePoint Portal from SharePoint Server

Posted on 27. Sep, 2007 by bryan.

One of our SharePoint servers at work was updated with the most recent round of security patches the other day.  Unfortunately, the result of this update was the inability to login to the SharePoint Portal from the server, and the search crawler not being able to access the site.
After some significant research on the matter [...]

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Bluetooth Headset and Google Talk

Posted on 12. Sep, 2007 by bryan.

Just to see if it would work, I decided the other day to pair my Motorola HS3 Bluetooth Headset with my Lenovo Thinkpad T60.

I have to admit that I am really digging using my headset with Google Talk and Messenger. I like having the option to switch into a voice chat from IM but maintain [...]

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SQL 2005 Maintenance Plans and SharePoint

Posted on 11. Sep, 2007 by bryan.

If you are using SPS 2003 or MOSS 2007 with a SQL Server 2005 box that does not have SP2 installed, you may discover that your crawls never complete.  There is a bug in SQL 2005 that if you have a Reindex Maintenance Plan it clears some attributes of the SharePoint indexes when it reindexes [...]

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Life Under a Rock

Posted on 10. Aug, 2007 by bryan.

My family and I are having a new house built.  Seems appropriate, as my former abode was located under the following:

You think I’m kidding?  I assure you I am not.  And I offer as proof this tidbit:
Did you know that since Windows 2000 one could mount drives to a folder?  Chances are, you did know [...]

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SharePoint Licensing

Posted on 25. Jun, 2007 by bryan.

Lots of people out there are asking the same questions regarding SharePoint licensing. Are CAL’s for concurrent users? Do I need both Standard and Enterprise CAL’s? Can I mix Standard and Enterprise CAL’s in a given environment?
It has been difficult finding definitive responses to these questions, and it seems like if you [...]

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My First Linq Program

Posted on 18. Jun, 2007 by bryan.

I successfully coded my very first LINQ program today, and man is it a doozie!  Observe:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
List<Student> studentList = new List<Student>();

studentList.Add(new Student(“Charlie”, “Brown”));
[...]

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